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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
1951 – The Canadian Army enters combat in the Korean War.
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http://thesarniajournal.ca/vet-recou...gotten-battle/
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Oldale said he heard the enemy before he saw them.
“We were hunkered down, waiting in the darkness. They screamed and hollered to signal their approach … it was completely unnerving.”
Waves of enemy soldiers, many armed with Russian sub-machine guns, began attacking the summit. Most of the Canadians were armed with 9-pound single bolt Lee Enfield rifles with an attached bayonet, 200 rounds of ammunition, and a handful of grenades.
They would need them all. The gunfire eventually gave way to hand-to-hand combat, and the fighting was intense and brutal. It was a kill or be killed battlefield.
Running low on ammunition, the Canadians used their bayonets. After that, some used their rifles as baseball bats.
With no ammunition left the Australians retreated on the April 24, but the Canadians held firm.
Just after midnight on the 25th, with hundreds of enemy soldiers just metres from his men, a Canadian officer radioed his position to a New Zealand artillery in the back lines. He ordered his men to find cover and within seconds a barrage of bombs exploded around them. The Canadians reasoned correctly that more soldiers of the larger enemy army would be killed.
It was a decisive strike.
The Chinese army withdrew in the morning and the Canadians, still alert, tended to the wounded and waited for a counter-attack that never came.
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Hope you don't mind Capt, but this war and this battle get forgotten. It shouldn't be. It results in the 2nd Battalion being awarded the Presidential Citation.
Korea was a short ####ing violent War.
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Captain James P. DeCOSTE, CD, 18 Sep 1993
Corporal Jean-Marc H. BECHARD, 6 Aug 1993
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